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David Brooks Column Doesn’t Suck; DJIA Loses 225 Points: Coincidence?

Posted on | May 4, 2010 | 3 Comments

As a general rule, when Matthew Yglesia leaps to your defense, that’s an ironclad guarantee that you’re wrong, but this latest Brooks column is actually quite good. 

I figure Brooks is sandbagging, setting us up for his next column, which will exceed every imaginable dimension of suckiness.

So the market impact of that Greek debt crisis is probably overrated. Wall Street trembles in fear of the next Brooks column.

Category: David Brooks Fisking Day

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3 Responses to “David Brooks Column Doesn’t Suck; DJIA Loses 225 Points: Coincidence?”

  1. Right-Wing Links (May 4, 2010)
    May 4th, 2010 @ 8:48 pm

    […] David Brooks Column Doesn’t Suck; DJIA Loses 225 Points: Coincidence? The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere. — Thomas Jefferson, letter to Abigail Adams, February 22, 1787 […]

  2. JeffS
    May 5th, 2010 @ 5:13 am

    “David Brooks Column Doesn’t Suck”

    Broken watch, right, twice a day.

  3. JeffS
    May 5th, 2010 @ 12:13 am

    “David Brooks Column Doesn’t Suck”

    Broken watch, right, twice a day.